Self-Organizing Federalism (eBook, PDF)

Collaborative Mechanisms to Mitigate Institutional Collective Action Dilemmas
Redaktion: Feiock, Richard C.

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Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the self-organizing responses of governments and interests to the institutional collective action (ICA) dilemmas of particular concern to students of federalism, urban governance, and regional management of natural resources. ICA dilemmas arise in fragmented systems whenever decisions by one independent formal authority do not consider costs or benefits imposed on others. The ICA framework analyzes networks, joint projects, partnerships, and other mechanisms developed by affected parties to mitigate ICA decision externalities. These mechanisms play a widespread role in federalist systems by reshaping incentives to encourage coordination/cooperation. The empirical studies of urban service delivery and regional integration of regional resource management address three questions: How does a given mechanism mitigate costs of uncoordinated decisions? What incentives do potential members have to create the mechanism? How do incentives induced by the mitigating mechanism affect its sustainability in a changing environment and its adaptability to other ICA dilemmas?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511636882
• Artikelnr.: 38206311

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Self-Organizing Versus Centralized Solutions to Institutional
Collective Action Problems: Theoretical Considerations: 1. Self-organizing
governance of institutional collective action dilemmas: an overview Richard
C. Feiock and John T. Scholz; 2. Can consolidation preserve local autonomy?
Mitigating vertical and horizontal dilemmas Andrew B. Whitford; 3. The
institutional collective action perspective on self-organizing mechanism:
market failures and transaction cost problems Annette Steinacker; 4.
Conflict, power, and irreconcilable preferences: some limits to self
organizing mechanism Bryan Jones; Part II. Integrating Metropolitan Service
Provision: Networks, Contracts, Agreements, and Special Districts: 5.
Adaptive versus restrictive contracts: can they resolve different risk
problems? Simon Andrew; 6. Do risk profiles of services alter contractual
patterns? A comparison across multiple metropolitan services Manoj
Shrestha; 7. Special districts versus contracts: complements or
substitutes? Megan Mullin; 8. The political market for intergovernmental
cooperation Kenneth N. Bickers, Stephanie Post and Robert M. Stein; Part
III. Integrating Regional Policies through Networks, Joint Ventures, and
Partnerships: 9. Collaborative institutions, functional areas, and beliefs:
what are their roles in policy networks? Christopher M. Weible; 10.
Sustaining joint ventures: the role of resource exchange and the strength
of inter-organizational relationship Ramiro Berardo; 11. Institutional
collective action in an ecology of games Mark Lubell, Adam Henry and Mike
McCoy; 12. Enhancing vertical and horizontal self-organization: harnessing
informal networks to integrate policies within and between governments in
the European Union Paul Thurner; Part IV. Self-Organizing Governance and
Institutional Collective Action: 13. Self-organizing mechanisms for
mitigating institutional collective action dilemmas: an assessment and
research agenda Richard C. Feiock and John T. Scholz.